Peggy Stafford

Peggy Stafford’s plays include EVERYTHING IS HERE (Clubbed Thumb/PHTS, Vineyard Reading Series),16 WORDS OR LESS (Clubbed Thumb Summerworks 2016, The Kilroy’s 2014, 2015), MOTEL CHERRY (Clubbed Thumb/New Georges, Huffington Post’s Top Ten Plays of 2012), JEWEL CASKET (New Georges/Dixon Place). Her work has also been developed and produced at theatres including Soho Rep, Women’s Project, Playwrights Horizon, Two River, Page73, Bottom’s Dream, HERE, Annex Theatre, Circle X, On The Boards, and Seattle Children’s Theatre. A MacDowell Fellow and affiliated artist at New Georges and Clubbed Thumb Theatre, Peggy is chair of the Playwriting Program at SUNY Purchase.

Peggy Stafford’s plays include EVERYTHING IS HERE (Clubbed Thumb/PHTS, Vineyard Reading Series),16 WORDS OR LESS (Clubbed Thumb Summerworks 2016, The Kilroy’s 2014, 2015), MOTEL CHERRY (Clubbed Thumb/New Georges, Huffington Post’s Top Ten Plays of 2012), JEWEL CASKET (New Georges/Dixon Place). Her work has also been developed and produced at theatres including Soho Rep, Women’s Project, Playwrights Horizon, Two River, Page73, Bottom’s Dream, HERE, Annex Theatre, Circle X, On The Boards, and Seattle Children’s Theatre. A MacDowell Fellow and affiliated artist at New Georges and Clubbed Thumb Theatre, Peggy is chair of the Playwriting Program at SUNY Purchase.

Scripts

Ambulette: a non-emergency vehicle

by Peggy Stafford

Cast Size
5
Genre
comedy,
drama,
experimental

Ambulette is a memory play that unfolds inside a moving non-emergency vehicle, a beach on the south side of Long Island, and a cemetery where people used to have picnics. It’s a journey of friendship, grief and remembrance.

Ambulette is a memory play that unfolds inside a moving non-emergency vehicle, a beach on the south side of Long Island, and a cemetery where people used to have picnics. It’s a journey of friendship, grief and remembrance.

Everything Is Here

by Peggy Stafford

Cast Size
5
Genre
comedy,
drama,
experimental

An assisted living facility in the suburbs. Three women mark time in a common room that looks out on a man-made pond -- remembering what was and wasn't, what might have been, and acting out scenes from A Streetcar Named Desire. A play about impermanence, hope, and surviving.

An assisted living facility in the suburbs. Three women mark time in a common room that looks out on a man-made pond -- remembering what was and wasn't, what might have been, and acting out scenes from A Streetcar Named Desire. A play about impermanence, hope, and surviving.

Motel Cherry

by Peggy Stafford

1
Cast Size
9
Genre
dark comedy,
drama,
experimental

Guests arrive at a roadside motel deep in the woods of the Olympic Peninsula. Local calls, ice, and little bars of soap are free. But walls are thin and secrets seethe through over the course of one charged night.

Guests arrive at a roadside motel deep in the woods of the Olympic Peninsula. Local calls, ice, and little bars of soap are free. But walls are thin and secrets seethe through over the course of one charged night.

16 Words or Less

by Peggy Stafford

1
Cast Size
7
Genre
comedy,
drama,
experimental

A lonesome flower shop clerk tries to contain the challenges of her customers’ lives but can’t do the same for herself. An offbeat story about language, death, and hair.

A lonesome flower shop clerk tries to contain the challenges of her customers’ lives but can’t do the same for herself. An offbeat story about language, death, and hair.